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Re: Why does Postgres allow duplicate (FK) constraints

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Tom Lane, 26.03.2013 17:16:
The lack of any prohibition to the contrary means there is no way to
argue that the code you showed previously violates the spec; thus,
a database that fails to accept it is rejecting spec-compliant DDL.

I'm not claiming that the spec is violated...
(And I'm not complaining either. I'm just curious if there was a technical reason)
Well, it's redundant, but that doesn't make it wrong.  In any case,
there are lots of ways that things might be redundant.  Should we
reject a unique constraint on (a,b) if there's already one on (b,a)?
Or if there are separate unique constraints on each of a and b?

Hmm, good point.

Although I think a definition that is identical with regards of the columns and their position in the constraint _could_ be considered identical.

Anyway thanks for the feedback.






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